STEAM TECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPING CREATIVITY OF STUDENTS: ON THE EXAMPLE OF A SCHOOL PHYSICS COURSE

Abstract

Physics as a discipline has a great influence on the development of science and technology, engineering. A student who has worked in physics lessons with equipment and conducted experimental observations of phenomena with physical laws will be ready to perform any practical actions. The lack of demonstration rooms or equipment failure in schools create many obstacles. As a result, the graduate of the school becomes less interested in choosing technical and engineering specialties. One of the urgent problems in the school physics course is the preparation of students who are able to clearly search for physical laws and phenomena, conclusions, questions and reasons, assimilate information through the right choice of scientific literature and achieve new results, inclined to work with advanced technical equipment. The aim and the leading idea of our research is to develop the training of students in the field of physics based on STEAM education, to identify problems of weakening of natural-technical and engineering components in secondary school. In the course of the study, the world practice of STEAM was studied, a literature review based on articles in academic databases was conducted. The results of the study showed a lack of knowledge in the academic literature in this area. The article presents didactic conditions for the development of advanced technology for teaching a school physics course based on STEAM, the possibility of increasing the number of creative students who are able to work on various projects leading to new ideas. The results of the study allow us to create high-tech products based on STEAM at school bases.